lighthouse/account_manager
Michael Sproul 20339ade01 Refine and test slashing protection semantics (#1885)
## Issue Addressed

Closes #1873

## Proposed Changes

Fixes the bug in slashing protection import (#1873) by pruning the database upon import.

Also expands the test generator to cover this case and a few others which are under discussion here:

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-3076-validator-client-interchange-format-slashing-protection/4883

## Additional Info

Depending on the outcome of the discussion on Eth Magicians, we can either wait for consensus before merging, or merge our preferred solution and patch things later.
2020-11-24 07:21:14 +00:00
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src Refine and test slashing protection semantics (#1885) 2020-11-24 07:21:14 +00:00
Cargo.toml Bump to v0.3.5 (#1927) 2020-11-18 00:44:28 +00:00
README.md Added deterministic keypair generation. 2019-04-08 15:02:11 +10:00

Lighthouse Account Manager

The account manager (AM) is a stand-alone binary which allows users to generate and manage the cryptographic keys necessary to interact with Ethereum Serenity.

Roles

The AM is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Generation of cryptographic key pairs
    • Must acquire sufficient entropy to ensure keys are generated securely (TBD)
  • Secure storage of private keys
    • Keys must be encrypted while at rest on the disk (TBD)
    • The format is compatible with the validator client
  • Produces messages and transactions necessary to initiate staking on Ethereum 1.x (TPD)

Implementation

The AM is not a service, and does not run continuously, nor does it interact with any running services. It is intended to be executed separately from other Lighthouse binaries and produce files which can be consumed by them.&

Usage

Simply run ./account_manager generate to generate a new random private key, which will be automatically saved to the correct directory.

If you prefer to use our "deterministic" keys for testing purposes, simply run ./accounts_manager generate_deterministic -i <index>, where index is the validator index for the key. This will reliably produce the same key each time and save it to the directory.